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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Pride, Feelings
"Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology".

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lovely, Desire, Looks

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Want, Honest, Periods
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.120, U of Nebraska Press

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Patience, Strange, Ends
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Plato, Philosophy

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fall, Men, Flying

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Writing, Long

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, People, Brutality
"Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Blood, Criticism
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Important, Ethics, Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Passion, Boredom

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Relationship, Real, Women

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Attitude, Believe, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy, Suffering, Paper

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Essence, Knows, Slowness
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.212, Vintage

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Self, Ill Treatment, Profound

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Self, Modesty

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Law, Goal

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength, Visions Of The Future, Two

There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Clothes, Bags
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Solitude, Break, Humans

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Nihilism, Doe

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Thinking, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Islam, Assuming
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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